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Whenever a hoax is proven to be a hoax, not everyone listens. Some believers remain believers for the rest of their lives, no matter how unlikely their claims. The indellible cultural watermark created by hoaxing is exemplified in the ten most famous UFO hoaxes of the last few decades. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v/o7Tu-28hyow Shermer, the editor of Skeptic magazine, released a short video last year detailing his investigation of how easy it is to fake UFO photos....

There are hundreds of top-tier games from the ’90s, but successful games don’t necessarily become important for the industry. These ten titles came out in the ’90s and offered something different, making them the most important games of the decade. Top 10 Most Important Video Games Of The 1970s 10 Ultima Online (1997) It seems you can’t surf the Internet these days without running into a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG)....

Some may disagree with this episode being on the list. After all, it’s not well known and is rarely seen on television re-runs. However, “I Am The Night – Color Me Black” is a very powerful episode about a town that’s plunged into total blackness. The sun stops shining on this one town on the day of a hanging. The truth about why slowly comes out as a priest theorizes what the blackness means....

Have you ever found yourself dreaming about being caught in a violent hurricane, or perhaps an approaching tornado that is ripping apart houses and trees? These types of nightmares are said to indicate a sense of impending fear or anxiety in the person having the dream. Since the weather is often unpredictable and cannot be controlled, this relates to the individual holding stress and anxiety throughout their day to day life....

10 Fairey Swordfish Designed during the 1930s, the Fairey Swordfish was a biplane torpedo bomber. Although the Swordfish was state of the art at the time of production, monoplane fighters and bombers soon made biplanes look obsolete. The Swordfish used World War I ideas. It had a large, open, three-seat cockpit and a rudimentary defensive armament. By the time that World War II began, the Air Ministry believed that Swordfish squadrons would get torn apart and began designing a new torpedo bomber....

Top 10 Iconic Moments From The History Of Music 10 The Ink Spots In 1934, The Ink Spots were formed in Indianapolis. The band consisted of Hoppy Jones, Deek Watson, Jerry Daniels and Charlie Fuqua, and would become one of the first so-called boy bands, even though the term was only established in the late 1980s. Their song “If I Didn’t Care” became the 8th bestselling single of all time and sold over 19 million copies....

Peculiar facts aside, paper is a great material for inventors. Recent creations could one day replace centrifuges and body parts, while there is already a type of paper that holds as much power as a supercapacitor and another that is stronger than iron. 10 The Yellowing Factor There is an interesting reason why old paper turns yellow. Most paper consists of cellulose and lignin, two elements derived from wood. Cellulose is a colorless substance but also the reason why a sheet is white....

Conspiracy Theory: The alien agenda. Phil Schneider stands out in the world of alien conspiracy. In 1995, Schneider began to give public conferences describing the history of human and alien interaction on the planet Earth. Many of his speeches given during 1995 can be viewed on YouTube. Phil claims that he was an ex-government structural engineer, who was put in charge of developing secret underground bases around the United States....

In 1985, Roger Waters left Pink Floyd and declared the band dead. Two years later, David Gilmour and Nick Mason released A Momentary Lapse of Reason and proved him wrong. Although the album is arguably worse than anything else in the Floyd catalog, the songs “Learning to Fly”, “On the Turning Away”, and “Sorrow” stand as some of the best of the post-Waters Floyd. This performance is from the Pink Floyd concert film Delicate Sound of Thunder....

Jeremejevite USD $2000/Carat Pronounced ye-REM-ay-ev-ite, this is a colorless, sky blue or pale yellow stone, the highest quality of which comes from Namibia. In nature it occurs in small obelisk-shaped crystals and has in the past been mistaken for aquamarine. It was named after Russian mineralogist Pavel Jeremejev who discovered the mineral in 1883. As of early 2005, a clean, 2.93-carat faceted gem was selling on the Internet for $2000....

Superheroes, villains, and gods with bulging muscles all form part of the action. What more could we ask for when it comes to movies such as Iron Man, The Avengers, Spider-Man, and Thor? Some fans delight in finding Easter eggs in their favorite superhero flicks or discovering clues that may just prove certain fan theories correct. So they binge-watch these movies several times to connect seemingly loose threads and build theories around the films....

The purpose of this list is to bring to your awareness some of the heinous crimes and killers you may not be aware of, but not to glorify or entertain. These monsters should always play second-fiddle to their victims, whose names must be upheld for eternity—when not mentioned below (for the sake of word count or lack of identification), we urge you to follow the links and read or watch further....

The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) provides one of the most beautiful of all animal displays. Individually they are a pretty orange and black, but when they mass for migration they fill the air with color. The migration path of the butterflies covers a large part of North America. The migration is prompted by the fragility of the butterflies to cold and so, as winter approaches, they head south. In these warmer areas the butterflies overwinter in large groups that may cover whole trees....

10Knock-Knock Jokes Jacie O’Brien was just four years old when her father lost his life during the 9/11 attacks. Not long after this tragedy, her mother Lisa found Jacie having a conversation, seemingly by herself, in an empty room in their family home. When she asked about it, Lisa was astonished to hear her daughter say that she had been “talking to Daddy” and that he was telling her knock-knock jokes....

They overhaul technology, reveal unexpected abilities, and show up in strange places. Sound can also mess with the human brain on a level that is astounding. Today, we’ll reveal the top 10 strange scientific discoveries about sound. 10 It Can Possibly Explain Anesthesia Conventional medical belief holds that nerves “talk” with electrical impulses. They are the pathways of the brain that tell the hand to wave or pat the cat....

SEE ALSO: 10 Highly Bizarre Space Conspiracy Theories Everyone knows that shooting stars are just meteors entering the atmosphere, right? If you didn’t, congratulations—you just failed the fourth grade. What some people don’t know, however, is that real shooting stars exist as well; they’re called hypervelocity stars. These are big, fiery balls of gas rocketing through space at millions of miles per hour. When a binary star system is gobbled down by the supermassive black hole (that’s the scientific term, by the way) at the center of a galaxy, one of the two partners is consumed, while the other is ejected at high speed....

5G wireless technology will potentially deliver ultra-low latency, higher multi-Gbps peak data speeds, more reliability, greater network capacity, increased availability, and a more even user experience to its users. The world can see how higher performance and improved efficiency will empower new user experiences and even connects new industries through 5G. A couple of cellular phone companies began to deploy 5G worldwide in 2019, and this new technology is the planned successor to the now popularly used 4G networks....

So far, the race to create a new language has been a tough one. Many of these languages never caught on. Some are works in progress and are still being developed while one has stood the test of time and is now a recognized language. 10aUI aUI (pronounced a-OO-ee) was introduced to we earthlings by John W. Weilgart who claimed a green, elf-like alien had taught him the language. Weilgart believed that aUI, which consists of several symbols, would replace complicated, natural languages like English....

NOTE: The extreme gap between rich and poor in Latin America has created pockets of high crime in some of the following destinations. I am an American and have never had the slightest problem. However, one should always use common sense and read up on areas to avoid when planning a holiday abroad. One may be surprised to learn that the oldest Chinatown in the western hemisphere isn’t in San Francisco or New York....

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